How Donald Trump Broke the Iowa Caucuses and Owns the G.O.P.

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Whether he wins as expected or somehow underperforms, Donald Trump has upended the Republican primary without participating in a single debate and barely campaigning on the ground.

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:11.2	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick with a raspy voice thanks to a cold.
0:17.4	And lo and behold, here we are. It's 2024, election season.
0:22.6	And the Iowa caucuses are on Monday, the first stop on the long journey to November 5th.
0:28.2	There's been a lot of news about the two candidates who seem to be competing for second place in the Republican Party.
0:33.8	Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Rhonda Santos Florida, who visited all 99 counties in Iowa.
0:41.5	Oh, what is that?
0:43.3	An icy?
0:44.9	Yeah, that's probably a lot of sugar, huh?
0:47.0	Good to see you.
0:48.3	But dominating these primaries, of course, is a candidate who has not participated in debates
0:53.1	who barely campaigned and is polling at more than
0:56.8	50%.
0:57.7	Don't stay home, just please, you know?
1:00.7	The polls are showing we're going to win by a lot.
1:03.7	And worst thing you can do, oh, let's just stay home, Alice, let's watch.
1:09.3	Let's watch it on television.
1:10.7	We don't want to do that.
1:11.8	You got to get out because the more we win by, we're shooting for November because
1:15.9	we've got to send a message.
1:18.1	We've got to send a message we can't be beaten because if we are beaten, we're not
1:22.3	going to have a country left anymore.
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